We’ve learned that if Romney — a guy who ran a successful Olympics — says it’s “disconcerting” that there are reports the security company has lost control, and that the ticketing isn’t working, and that there are going to be strikes to disrupt the games — even when the London papers have been reporting the problems with security, tickets, and strikes — that’s a gaffe.

And that Obama has been to Israel over and over again as President, although no one remembers him going.

And when Romney goes to Poland — that’s racist. And when Romney speaks at the NAACP — that’s racist. And when Romney points out that the differences between the Palestinian kleptocracy — which is stealing its own people blind while siphoning off literal billions of dollars in aid, while its people live in squalor — and the Israelis, with whom they live cheek-to-jowl on the same chunk of desert, but who are rich, have an expanding economy, a vital, working democracy, and beautiful cities filled with beautiful people — is primarily cultural, that’s racist.

And referring to the “Anglo-Saxon” heritage from which we draw our language, our common law, our and even our names for farm animals as opposed to their meats, is racist.

And interrupting Obama during a press event is unacceptable, but reporters shouting questions during a solemn ceremony at a foreign memorial to victims of the Nazis is perfectly ordinary, and objecting to it is horribly impolite at best, and, yes, a gaffe.

You know, I think I’m seeing a pattern here.

Charlie Martin writes on science, health, culture and technology for PJ Media. Follow his 13 week diet and exercise experiment on Facebook and at PJ Lifestyle

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Marc Malone

Pattern? I am good at seeing patterns, but I do not see one, here. There is no pattern to wild flailing.

I get this mental image of someone in some bunker wildly stabbing at buttons in order to prevent defeat. Maybe someone or a committee looking over the shoulder of the button-pusher, kibitzing. “Try the racism button again! Maybe it’ll work this time!” “Schedule another fundraiser!”, shouts another.

Desperately stabbing at buttons which no longer function, while the enemy and doom draw inexorably closer. Out of options. Soon, out of time.

The pattern has been employed by revolutionists for the last hundred plus years. If you can tap into the pent up frustration and anger of a group, you can convince them to do just about anything (such as elect the most unqualified president in the history of the republic who is probably a Marxist). The pattern also involves convincing certain groups that they are victims of the elite or controlling class, thus invoking new anger.

In our case, the reds believe they can turn garden variety Americans who may be down on their luck temporarily into a class of victims. These may be folks who were recently laid off or who lost a large amount of retirement funds in a recent stock market crash. If you can convince these people that its not just fate (or their own missteps) that led to their misfortune, then they will take on the mantle of victims.

It is important for the reds to silence anyone who speaks truthfully about what is going on. That’s a significant sub-pattern to all this. This starts with the typical pejoratives being hurled at those who resist and, ultimately, ends in violence against those who speak up.

Charlie – The pattern you see is the self-destruction of the LSM. They are so far in the tank for O that they have simply become shills for him. Nothing he does is wrong, nothing Romney does is right. The downside of this is that an important of our republican democracy, the flow of accurate information to the people, is becoming toast. The only places I get anything accurate is at places like PJM and at Commentary Contentions, filtered, though, in the opinions of the writes, and at Breitbart. I trust precious little in the print media.

Compare that media flailing with the solid lines at Chick-Fil-A. The thousands of people standing in line or waiting in their cars for an hour or more at a time. Many turned it in to a party and a “get to know your neighbor” thing. Check out the number of people who calmly and profitably supported their 1st Amendment Rights.

Well, sure, that’s the pattern if you bitterly cling to your guns, religion, Constitution, and simplistic notion that success derives from culture and behavior. But the more nuanced, enlightened, non-partisan, and cerebral analysts know that a different pattern exists under all of the background clutter and that said pattern will become obvious once Obama fully explains it. It’s not a failure of policy, it’s simply that Obama is so far ahead of the experts that they’re not able to explain his manifest success to the bitter clingers. To put the intellectual gulf into perspective… Obama must first teach chimps how to talk and then the chimps must teach dogs. If the chimps can’t understand Obama then what chance do dogs have?